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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers

Oh, this is rich. And sickening.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, one of
the most virulent anti-LGBT douchebagging, goosestepping members of the
Catholic Church hierarchy, once authorized
payments of as much as $20,000 to child raping priests as an
"incentive" for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when
he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.

Um, yeah, that sounds like a payoff,
doesn't it?

And, naturally, when "Cardinal" Dolan was questioned at the time
regarding a particularly notorious pedophile cleric who had been been given a
“payoff” to leave the priesthood, Dolan, then the archbishop, called the
inference “false, preposterous and unjust.”

But now we know it was true.

A document unearthed during
bankruptcy proceedings for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee--because of lawsuits
against them regarding pedophile priests--revealed that the archdiocese did
indeed make such payments to multiple accused priests to encourage them to seek
dismissal, thereby allowing the church to remove them from the payroll.

Jerry Topczewski, spokesman for
the archdiocese, confirmed that payoffs were made to “a handful” of accused
priests as a "motivation” not to contest being defrocked. And the church even
has a name for paying off rapists; they call it “laicization;” a formal
church juridical procedure that requires Vatican approval--which means
the Pope knew about it--and can take far longer if the priest objects.

“It was a way to provide an
incentive to go the voluntary route and make it happen quickly, and ultimately
cost less,” Topczewski said. “Their cooperation made the process a
lot more expeditious.”

It's all about money.

Oddly enough, "Cardinal" Dolan, president of the
national bishops’ conference and fast becoming the nation’s most high-profile
Roman Catholic cleric, does not have a comment. Perhaps he ran to the bank for another
payoff.

The newly revealed documents are the minutes of a meeting of the Catholic Church finance council of the Milwaukee archdiocese from2003, which Cardinal Dolan attended. The minutes noted that
“unassignable priests”--those suspected of abuse--were still receiving full
salaries, and also states that it a proposal to “offer $20,000 for laicization ($10,000 at the start and $10,000 at the
completion the process)” was discussed. Instead of salary, the pedophiles would receive a $1,250
monthly pension benefit, and, until they found another job, health insurance.

Pension and health insurance. It pays to be a child rapist in the Catholic Church.

The first known payment under
Dolan's watch was to Franklyn Becker, a former priest who abused at least
ten children. He received a payoff to leave the church and practice his
pedophilia elsewhere. When asked, at that time, about the payment, Cardinal
Dolan called it “an act of charity,” so that Becker could pay for health
insurance.

No act of charity though for the
multiple boys and girls sexually abused by Becker, I guess.

And, when you learn that the Catholic Church has paid more than $16
million to settle lawsuits involving Becker and one other priest, it all makes sense.

Pay the
pedophiles about twenty grand and send them on their way, and then you don't
have to worry about a $16 million payoff.

5 comments:

Why do I continue to be surprised? But this one just takes the breath away. Yet we all can be sure that there's STILL a lot more to come out - while the Church hierarchy is shitting itself trying to prevent the next revelation. Let's face it - the institution is putridly rotten to the core! How anyone can continue to profess that this is, uniquely, God's one true Church is beyond my comprehension. That really is some God! - one which doesn't deserve ANYONE'S respect!